The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-01 00:00:00

4 t '!l.Pr% IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) pidly breaking it down before foreign compeiition. That the breaking down of our trade, under its present burthens, warns us of the swifter destruction that must overwhelm us when the whole of the burthens shall come to press on a diminished trade exposed to the increased competition of foreign skill. That this meeting, convinced that the remedy for evils so nu merous and fatal can only be found in taking the Legislative power from the exclusive usurpation of the money lender, the land lender, and the lawyer, and restoring it to the possession of industry, do hereby resolve that it is the bounden duty of every man to give his support to the National Petition, which seeks, by universal representation and universal justice, uni versal protection." The amendment was seconded by Mr. COLLINS, on the ground that he considered the establishing of a particular So ciety, like the one proposed, would have the effect of dividing the energies of the people. He contended that the Corn-laws were not the cause, but the effect of the system by which they were governed, and of the evils under which they suffered. It was the natural tendency of power to corrupt its possessors, and he would not have come forward to support the amend ment for one moment, if its design was to transfer the Govern ment from one section of the community to another ; but it was for the purpose of putting the exclusive right of reprc sentstion into the hands of the people ; for, if they had done this before, these evils would never been suffered to exist. On the suggestion of Mr. P. H. MUNTZ, that part of the resolution, thanking Mr. Poulton for his admirable lecture, was thrown into the form of a distinct motion, and put to the meeting. It was carried amidst enthusiastic cheering. Mr. Poulton having returned thanks, a warm and lengthened discussion arose on the question involved in the remaining part of the resolution (the formation of a Corn-law Abolition So ciety), which continued till midnight ; and after much per sonal recrimination between the advocates for Universal Suf frage on the one side, and the supporters of the Corn-law Abolition question on the other, Mr. Salt's amendment was put to the meeting, and carried by a large majority. A vote of thanks was afterwards voted to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up soon after twelve o'clock. DUBLIN, Nov. 29. THE PRECURSOR SOCIETY.—THE ENGLISH RADICALS. An adjourned meeting of the Precursor Society was held this day at the Corn Exchange, Augustus Callaghan, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Purcell, after an appropriate introduction, in which he dwelt upon the services and successes of Mr. O'Connell. moved a resolution, calling upon the country in the name a the Precursor Society, to give to the collection of the O'Con nell tribute precedence to every other measure, until it shall have been effected in every parish of the kingdom in a man ner worthy of the claim it prefers. Mr. John Redmond seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. O'Connell shortly after entered the room, and was re ceived with loud cheers. He proceeded to correct some errors into which the Newspapers had fallen in reporting his late speech. He was made to say that at a Radical meeting at the close of the last Session he appealed to the Liberal Members whether Grote, Warburton, Molesworth, and the other Radical leaders had shown sufficient sympathy with Ireland. What he had said was, that he had done so at a meeting of the Reform Club at the commencement of the Session.—(Hear, hear.) He had been invited to be present at a Polish meeting in London that day; be would not be present in person, but he was in heart. It was a disgrace to Europe that Russia was suffered to inflict upon that country the nuisance which she daily made her endure, to which the worst tyrannies of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland were not to be compared.—( Hear, hear.) One of the barbarities which I mentioned on the last occasion was a conscription of 500 young unmarried women, by the orders of the Czar. It was mentioned in the Goritz Gazette, published in Galitzia. Five hundred young unmar ried women, some of them perhaps betrothed, were torn from the arms of their parents, of their brothers, and of their des tined husbands ; and were condemned to be the wives of men sent to cultivate a military colony in a wild and savage desert ! What barbarity. The Hon and Learned Gentleman then pro ceeded to the business of the day, and read the following ad dress to the English Radicals, which was listened to with the greatest attention:— It is our earnest desire to treat you and your address with the utmost courtesy and respect. We respect ever your mistakes and errors ; and for ourselves, as fellow-men and fellow-citi zens, we can entertain no other sentiments than those of kind ness and regard. Your address meets our warm approbation, as far as it indi cates a determination to act with energy and perseverance in the endeavour to ameliorate existing institutions, and to ad vance the working out of the great principle of democratic li berty—a principle, when accompanied and guided by the moral influence of religious sentiment, is alone capable of being made the safe and certain basis of perfect liberty and social happiness. At the same time that we applaud your avowed inten tions, there are matters in your address which we deeply deplore. We deplore the manifest ignorance which it ex hibits of the state of the Irish people ; we deplore also the distinct want of candour and sincerity, which ;breaks out in more than one of its paragraphs ; and, above all, we cor dially regret that you should have omitted so favourable an occasion of disclaiming, and, indeed, of denouncing, not in general terms, but emphatically and by name, the men who tarnish and stain your cause and the cause of Reform, by threats, menaces, and exhortations, which are as foolish as they are wicked, exciting as they do to violence, to bloodshed, and to revolution. We take these points in detail:— The first—Your ignorance of the state of Ireland. You are not aware, we perceive, that the Parliamentary returns show that there are more children in Ireland, in proportion to the population, attending schools, and receiving education, than in England, or even in Scotland. You are not aware of the opinions deliberately formed by an overwhelming majority of the Irish people in favour of the greatest possible extension of the suffrage. We do not think there is any magic in the words " UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE," if the thing can be substantially attained, and, therefore, one of the principles on which the PRECURSOR SOCIETY is formed is expressed in these words— " To give every legal and constitutional aid to obtain for all parts of the empire the greatest possible extension of the Suffrage that can practically be obtained." It is, therefore, quite needless to have set forth in your address, so many paragraphs of plain and obvious truisms, in eider to induce us to join in all legal and constitutional ex ertions, to procure the greatest possible extension of the suffrage. The second point which displeases us in your Address is your want of candour, first, in the covert insinuations which that Address contains, suggesting matters derogatory to men who have long enjoyed the confidence of the Irish people. If you had materials for accusation against them, or any of ;them, it would have become you to speak out distinctly, and S's) state your accusation, especially as that mode of proceeding ss , mild have enabled us to point out its futility and its untruth. •,/lirdly—You deny that you, yourselves, have leaders; you ought to blush for shame at such a denial—no popular possibly be without leader s . Th e b us i ness o f the party can public, though sanctioned by the many, must be done by the few, and those who do the business, and who are sanctioned and applauded in doing it, are necessarily leaders. But the truth is, you have leaders, and you know you have ; but you are ashamed to avow them, and you ought to be ashamed to give them .any countenance. The Oastlers, the Stephenses, and the FearguJ O'Coiinors, have their names inscribed upon your banners. ,'rt is literally so. They take the most active part at your pub lic meetings; they propose, or at least they support, all your pub 'tic resolutions; they are applauded to the very echo that a ppl,. tuds again. How then do you think we can be d ece i ve d b y h' unfounded assertion that you have not leaders ? ly—There is another and more glaring want of can dour j usi :suated in your address, and declared in your public that the Whigs, as a party, are as bad, nay meetings--that is, some of you say worse, than the Tories. Nothing was ever more unbecoming in friends of human liberty (if such you be; than assertions of that unfounded cha racter, because, although b . he Whigs are indeed far from being perfect, or from meriting the unmeasured confidence of honest Radicals to work out the neces: sary ameliorations in our sys tem, yet they are beyond any comparison superior to the Tories. Th e one party are friendly u: clined to the cause o f liberty the other are the decided enemies of every popular amelioration, and uphold despotism in every. consitry. Take the following contrasts, which recent Eatory af fords : First--The Tories stood by Gatton and Old Sarum, and all the other rotten boroughs, with desperate tenacity. They insisted that the clay mound at Gatton and the tree at Old Sarum should have four Representatives in Parliament ; and they pertinaciously refused to give one Representative to ,Manchester, to Leeds, or to Birmingham. The Whigs at a single blow obliterated Gatton and Old thrum, and altogether 115 close and rotten boroughs, and Ih ,, t excluded from Parliament two hundred and twenty no min et ‘s of Lords or Commoners, and gave Representatives to the g ar a t w manu e facturing towns. 11 that we do not say theor insinuate th a t the plan of k was perfect .s ; but we do say and proclaim that the conduct of .' he Whigs Whigs thisin respect, as contrast e d w i th the Tories, is on. deserving the applause of every sincere friend hat no man can be honest who, after this con of liberty, and t. ? England were treat, endeavours to place the Wis and Tories on an equal footing of public estinnation. and corrupt. a:idaciously In the second plane, theco c r l p o o s r e ati c o o n m s' almost universally self-elec ted , 'The corporations of by th e n all. Tacked and plundering. The Tories stoo d Scotland are still mor%!' of public funds, to !They did not even consent to controul the knavish corporal:" 0. f Leicester in its iniquitous expenditure pt omote Parliamentary jobbing. The Whigs b rus hed away , at one blow, the corrupt, the jobbing, the peculat i ng , the self %elected. They annihilated the old corporations, a n d they sub litit uted for them corporations under the influence, to a eon ei'derable degree, of popular controul. You may say that the corporate reform of the Whigs is not per feet. Let it be granted that it is not so—yet, how tran seen dantly does the Whig party eclipse the Tories, of unmitigated corruption o n the one hand, in this andcon trast at least znodel 'ate reform on the other ! W e , therefore, again repeat, that no man can be honest who both parties in equal estimation. Nft.ces s -- Thir Ay_Look to the slave question : and it any man can . e nture a t tain to compare the Tories with th e Whi gs , we can a hest worts than eight hundred thousand living witnesses to 0 "pose and to deride the comparison. For twenty years before 1806 attempts were made to abolish th et most horrible of all human cruelties, the slave trade. 1 , , 7 hypocrisy was added to Tory cruelty on this subject. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1838. from your meetings and cov,nsels—confine yourselves within the lin,its of peace, law, and order, but within these exert yourselves strenuously.. actively, energetically, and above all continously, and you will deserve and insure the cordial co operation and ready assistance of the generous, incorruptible, high-minded, and true hearted people of Ireland. (Signed) DANIEL O'CONNELL, Chairman of the Committee. Corn. Exchange, 29th Nov. 1838. The address was adopted unanimously. Mr. O'Connell then stated that he was about to leave town for the county Wevford, and that this association would ad journ till Tuesday week. TRINITY COLLEGE. —The Limerick Chronicle announces that the Provost and Fellows of this College have issued an order prohibiting the students from attending political meetings of any description. Parson Graham has boasted that Trinity College contains an extensive Orange Lodge ; and Mr. Butt, a Professor of the College, is one of the principal spouters at the meetings of the revived Orange Society. ROSSINI'S CELEBRATED OPERA " GUILLAUME TELL." The Lessee of Drury-lane Theatre begs leave to announce to the Patrons and Professors of the Musical Art, his intention of producing, for the first time in this country, Rossini's acknowledged chef d'ceuvre, Guillaume Tell, on Monday, Dec. 3d, 1838. • The obstacles which have hitherto prevented the per formance of the Opera in England, viz.—the want of a suf ficient number of principal Singers, and of Choral Strength ; obstacles (which it might have been reasonably expected would have been overcome long since at the Italian Opera House, a theatre supposed to be devoted to the cultivati on of the higher class of Music) the Lessee of Drury-lan e has made every effort to surmount. Giiillazline Tell has been produced in almost every coun try of Europe, England excepted. It has consequently been the aim of the Lessee of Drury-lane, to endeavour to efface an obloquy that has attached to the Musical Character o the British Nation, which may be said to be nearly unac quainted with the most perfect work of Rossini. The Libretto will merely be a faithful translation of the Lyrical Drama of Messrs. Jouy and Hyppolite Bis, to which Rossini composed his Opera, in order that the cha racter of the Music may not, in any one instance, be de parted from. It is, therefore, confidently hoped, that the production of this distinguished Work will meet with that liberal encou ragement from the Amateurs and Professors of Musical Science in England, which will at once offer a deserved homage to the Genius of Rossini, and redound to the hOnour of the Country. ISLE OF WTGITT (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) VENTNOR, Nov. 29.—A dreadful gale of wind, at tended with thunder, lightning, and rain, has been raging during yesterday. Three ships, in great distress, were driven by, and great fears are entertained that they would have been wrecked, particularly the last, the crew of which were distinctly seen la,Jled to the rigging ; and at one time scarcely a hope remained hut she must have been driven on shore in Sandown-hay, but fortunately she weathered the Culvers. The storm continued all night and this morning. Other vessels in distress, were seen ; one close in, dismasted. I never witnessed such terrible weather. Two vessels are said to be on shore to the westward. Four o'clock.—The storm rages horribly. FRESHWATER, Nov. 29.—1 n the violent gale of this morning the French brig, Claire, C a pt a i n P eau d , came on shore in Compt on -b a y, se struck about ten o'clock, and at two this afternoon the Captain and crew, nine men, suc ceeded in getting on shore : her sails are all blown away, but her masts are still standing. She sits upright, and is well in upon the beach : she was bound from Marseilles to Honfleur, with a cargo of wheat. Edward Day, Esq., from the French Consulate, at Cowes, arrived on the shore by five, a.m., but could obtain no tidings of the Captain : why he should have gone away, and left the crew and the brig at such a time, is a mystery. It is said he is gone to Yarmouth. A ship, with her masts gone, is riding with two anchors a head in Chale-bay. COWES, Nov. 30.—During Wednesday and Thursday, we were visited by a tremendous gale from the southward and westward. The fleet in our roadstead has rode well ; not the most trifling accident having occurred. To-day the weather has moderated, and the wind shifted more to the west. All the vessels bound to the eastward have sailed, including a large fleet of colliers. The Captain of a Bel gian galliot reports that be saw the masts of a ship go by the board in West-bay, and soon afterwards the hull disap peared ; that he saw many ships disabled in the Channel, and a number with Jacks flying ; but the weather has been so bad the pilots would not leave the harbour. Indeed so many have been drowned lately, we can hardly expect them to run such risks, while they continue are so badly paid. Thismorning many of them have put to sea, it being reported that there are two vessels off the back of the Wight, in great distress. The only wreck at present known of, is the French brig near Brook, all bands saved : she is full of water, but the tide leaves her at low water. But for the light nights, the coast must have been strewed with wrecks, there were so many ships in the Channel. The Frederika Wilhelinina, Swedish bark, Captain Schrolder, came into harbour leaky, with a cargo of salt to discharge, A Belgian schooner, and several other vessels, are no w coming into the Roads. DISTRESSING SHIP NEWS FROM DUBLIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Gainsborough, of Ipswich, general cargo, on shore near Carrikhall Tower, between Baldoyle and Malahide—Four hands lost. Schooner Magnet, of Lancaster, Spencer Master, from Preston to Wicklow, with coal, on shore on the Bull, near Portrane—Crew safe. The brigantine Waterwitch, of Glasgow, bound to Leghorn, with bale goods, on shore near Carrsare, county Wexford—Crew all safe. A French vessel a-shore at Five-mile Point, near to Wicklow ; three pilots drowned on going off to her— Name not known. The Bothe, from Liverpool to Trinidad, brought into Dublin Harbour by two pilot-boats, with loss of rudder. The Ariadne, of Belfast, with a cargo of timber, struck on Sunday night in a heavy gale on the Tuskar rock, off the coast of Wexford, and was immediately thrown on her beam-ends ; three of the crew washed overboard and lost. Cut away the fore and main-top -masts close to the caps, when she righted, but full of water, her bottom being seriously injured and her boats and deck-cargo swept over board ; the remaining crew lashed themselves to the rigging. The vessel drifting between the Raven Points and Curra doe. At eleven a.m., on Monday, three more poor fellows, to endeavour to get some provisions, let drift their lashings were washed overboard and were drowned. Subsequently she took the ground, and the cargo (timber) washed out of her ; however, from the most strenuous, praiseworthy, and persevering exertions of Lieut. Lett, C.O. of the Rosslear Waterguard Station, who brought Capt. Manby's Life Apparatus, with the assistance of six genuine British tars, fortunately succeeded in a third gallant effort, having nothing on them for several hours but a flannel waistcoat and drawers (apprehensive of being capsized, and being com pelled to resort to their experience as swimmers) had the gratification to bring to land the Master, Mate, and re maining seamen, who are taken every care of. Pitt affected to support the abolition, but took care to be left upon that question, and upon that alone, in a tniitority The Whigs came into office for a few transitory months in 1806, and during that period they immortalised their adminis tration by the total abolition of the British slave trade, and the British flag could no longer cover a cargo of slaves. The Tories were in office from 1806 to 1830, and during that period they did not take one step to give the slaves liberty. Since the Whigs came into office, in 1830, the slaves—eight hundred thousand slaves—have been liberated, and now are free ! Sacred Heaven have you justice, have you humanity, when you place the Tories upon a level with the Whigs, and yet behold the glorious emancipation of human beings ? Chicanery may distort, and purblind party spirit may over look this mighty transition from slavery to freedom—but still this fact, this magnificent fact, will ever stand forward as a monument of eternal glory to that party by whose means it was ultimately consummated. The Whigs have their faults, and have committed their crimes—no men are more ready to admit and to deplore it than we are ; but let any honest man contrast their conduct with respect to slavery and the slave trade with that of the Tories, and then say, if he dare, that both parties ought to be held in equal estimation by the public ? In the last place, contrast the conduct of the Whigs with that of the Tories respecting Ireland. It is quite true that they commenced their career during the Administration of Lord Grey and Lord Brougham, by the base and bloody Coercion Act—a cruelty which we can never forget, because it somewhat resembled the constant conduct of the Tories towards our unhappy country. It is true they were sup ported by all the parties at that time in the House—for the Radicals were not at that time strong enough, even out of the House, and certainly not in the House, to be called a party. Yet, since the return of Lord Melbourne to power, the Whigs have done much, nay, almost all they could do for Ire land. They have put down, as much as they can, the spirit of anti-Irish partizanship. They have excluded from office multitudes of fiery partizans, the ready instruments of every ' oppression. They have, for the first time, totally abandoned the long-established Tory practice of packing juries on all crown prosecutions. They have purified the administration of justice by the introduction of several learned and impartial judges. They have taken some steps to purify the magistracy. For the first time in English history a fair and impartial exer cise of the executive authority has been witnessed amongst us ; and, above all, they stand as a constant barrier to the resum l , - tion of Tory power, and the exercise of all the base and in famous oppressions which Orange Toryism has inflicted and would again inflict upon this wretched country. The dread and horror of the restoration of the Tories to power, which are felt by the people of Ireland, are the result of our thorough knowledge of the miseries which Ireland would endure from such an infliction. We bitterly regret to perceive that you show no sympathy for our sufferings, and that you mingle in one common oppo sition our friends and our enemies. To qualify you to obtain the attention of the Irish people you should have shown an attachment to those who serve us well, and a hostility to our malignant foes. You seem to us to have done directly the reverse, and to patronise our enemies, and then to expect co-operation from us, whose interest you so grievously neglect or oppose. We need not remind you of the long-continued and hideous tyranny of the Tories—of the hideous waste of blood and treasure which that faction exhibited in their nefarious attempt to crush the rising liberties of the American people—the equally abominable waste of blood and British treasure ex pended, first to foment the revolutionary mania in France, and afterwards to prevent its settling down into peace and consti tutional freedom. It ought not to be necessary for us to remind you of the Pittite and Tory conspiracy of the year 1794 to drag to the scaffold and shed the blood of numbers of honest and patriotic men, forhaving advocated Parliamentary Reform, though in a more mitigated shape than that in which it had been thereto fore put forward by Mr. Pitt himself. We need not remind you of the rebellion of 1798, fomented and fostered by the Tory Government until it exploded in a driftless insurrection, prostrating the friends of freedom, and giving unbounded power and strength to our Tory enemies, until, by unparalleled intimidation, corruption, and bloodshed, they were able to suppress our national independence, and in flict upon us the Union. We surely need not remind you of the countless years in which, in Great Britain as well as in Ireland, the Tories sus pended the Habeas Corpus Act, and thus rendered life and liberty totally insecure. We need not remind you of the Tory individual murders in Scotland, nor of the more recent and equally atrocious mas sacre of English men, English women, and English children, in the streets of Manchester—a massacre which has remained totally unatoned for, and its Tory perpetrators totally un punished. In short, the crimes of the Tories against public liberty and constitutional right cannot be exceeded in enormity or length of continuance ; and the Tories are as ready to commence them again as if they had never sinned against mankind. In fine, the dark and ensanguined history of Toryism is not illu minated with one single ray of light, of grace, or of goodness. Toryism is a monster not redeemed from its vices by one single service in the cause of liberty or humanity. We are not the eulogists of the Whigs, and we freely ad mit that they have unjustly and absurdly halted in their career of public utility, especially upon the all-important question of the Ballot ; but, at the same time, we hold in utter scorn those public men who will not do them justice when they are put in contrast with the Tories. We do not pretend that the Whigs are effulgent lights of liberty, but we do insist that they are as superior to the Tories as the moon, on a clear night, is more brilliant than the lesser stars, though fated to fade into obscurity in the presence of the rising sun. The injustice which you do the Whigs demonstrates your want of sympathy with Ireland, and would alone be sufficient to justify our refusal to co-operate with you; but we are com pelled by the same sense of justice and love of truth to repro bate, in the strongest terms, the mode in which many of your public meetings are conducted. We entirely disapprove of the language of intimidation and violence--the incitements to arms—the aspirations for revolu tion—the total contempt for the legal and constitutional bounds within which political agitation should be restrained— the sanguinary ferocity of your Oastlers, O'Connors, and Stephenses—shouted and responded to by the dupes of a useless and insane declamation. Whilst such conduct is pursued at your meetings, you can not expect countenance and co-operation from us. We not only abhor the illegal and criminal nature of such proceed ings, but we are disgusted with their folly and fatuity. For what, after all, can be more foolish than your miserable threats of armed violence and bloodshed ? Unorganised masses may commit outrages and murders in particular loca lities, but the disciplined force of the State would soon scatter them to the winds, aided, as that force would be, by all the property, and by all the wise and good men in the nation —nay, Ireland alone would furnish a sufficient force to crush for ever any attempt at a violent revolution. We ask you earnestly why do you not disclaim and disown the men who thus wickedly and foolishly injure the cause of Reform ? They justly alarm all men of property, and throw them into the ranks of the opponents of Reform. They also range against you the sagacious multitude of persons who have learned from history and experience the enormous mis chiefs which result from tumultuous or sanguinary changes in the political state. Again, we denounce not only the wickedness but the extreme folly of the conduct of your leaders. That folly is exhibited in their not knowing that there is no country on the face of the earth in which it is so impossible to effect a change in the Government by a civil war as in Eng land. The social state there is too complicated —man is too dependent on his fellow man. The operative and his family are too dependent for food and raiment on the wages of his employer to render it possible for a rebellious outbreak to subsist in England. Consider for one moment the number of operatives in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, and in half a dozen other great manufacturing towns—reflect that there are from two to three millions of human beings dependant for their subsistence in these tow►,s upon the payment of weekly wages. If in all these towns the factories were closed, and the workshops and manufactories all shut up for the space of three or four weeks—if there were no wages longer paid or earned for these three or four weeks, how could the myriads of operatives and their wives and fami lies subsist? They might, perhaps, live one week upon the plunder of their wealthier neighbours, and thereby reduce them to the same state of misery with themselves; but, after that week, famine would lift its head on every side, all re sources for subsistence would be cut off, and the countless mul titudes would inevitably perish—the deluded victims of crimi nal incitement of men who ought to have known better. Abandon, then, we conjure you, your absurd as well as criminal menaces. You have a strong—nay an irresis tible—case for the extension of the Suffrage, and, above all, for the Vote by Ballot, if you will al low that cause to be conducted within the bounds of law, order, and common sense. The best of the Refor mers of Birmingham have already set you the example. Scholfield and Thomas Attwood, Muntz, and Edmonds, and Salt, and Douglas, and Hadley, and other excellent Radicals, have set you a brilliant example. They have expressly, and in the strongest manner, condemned all excitations to physical force, for the purpose of procuring U n i versa l S uf f rage. Th ey have with equal emphasis condemned all proceedings calcu lated to produce any breach of peace, law, or order ; and they have in the loudest manner anathematised all encourage ment to civil war. The patriot hand of Thomas Attwood has inscribed on the Birmingham banner, " PEACE, LAW, and ORDER." Under that banner we are ready to contend for the greatest possible extension of the Suffrage that can practicably be obtained— ' for the shortening of Parliaments—for the Vote by Ballot. Our wise policy is to make the most of existing means, and i to do the best which present circumstances allow. It is upon this account that we cordially support the Whig Ministry, tis,ough munch dissatisfied with its backwardness in some points: and w: cordially support them rather than suffer the incalcula ble evil ot%'_dmittin g the Tories to power through a breach in the ranks of the Reformers. We confidently truss that the good sense of the great majo rity of the working classes yfill prevail over the harsher and more violent counsels of the unwisb and the unwary. Com mon sense has an almost magical power i: Politics, and as com mon sense points out the paths of " law, peace, and order" as t he on ly route that leads fo security and success, w,.. confidently all foolish anticipate the abandonment of and wicked courses, perseverance in M il e aldontehewhieh shall have the sanction , an of firm.support and . ardent co- A emissaries of violence, civil ers o liberty m the United Kingdom. 1 operation of a o a f nd th a e wise a Continue to countenance jd rec • will merit and you war, and bloodshed , _ itf.. opposition. repro bation and unequivocal l n l d s i t n ll c e e r g e73 1 7 and wicked men—dismiss ti; O'Con - Abandon the foolish . `l4tors Stephenses, and their ism,. , the Oastlers, and the -%, nors, SPURTING INTELLIGENCE RACING IN ASIATIC RUSSIA. OUItALSK (ASIATIC RUSSIA), OCT. 10.—The annals of the Jockey Club do not perhaps record an instance of what occur. red at our late horse races, on the 29th of September. at which several Kirghis- Sultans and the civil and military high func tionaries of the province attended. The latter, preceded by the Hettman of the Cossacks of the Oural, bad repaired in procession to the Hippodrome, situate in the centre of the town. The horses were to clear a distance of Is wersts (about 101 miles English), and the Cossack horses were to run first. Twenty started from the post together, two of whom (one mounted by the Cossack Santchya, and the other by the Cos sack Salihof,) outstripped all the rest, and constantly ran by each other's side, as if they were tied together, without so much as a line's difference between the two. They reached the mark in 24 minutes and 35 seconds, and the prize of 250 roubles (401.) was divided between the two competitors. This equal swiftness of the two horses astonished the spectators ; on an inquiry being made it was discovered that they were twins. The race of the Kirghis- Kaissak horses next took place. Eighteen left the post together, and the conqueror, mounted by Dajin Baj-Mohamed, the son of the sovereign Sultan of the Kirghis Kaissaks, cleared the ground in 19 minutes. This velocity was extraordinary, but the horse is reckoned one of the fleetest of Kirghistan, and the young Sultan enjoys the re putation of being the best horseman in his father's dominions. The Prince distributed among his servants the prize of 310 roubles (501.) gained by his stead. A race was afterwards to be run between Cossack and Kirghis-Kaissak horses, but no one having a horse able to compete with that of the Dajin Baj. Mohamed, the race did not take place. The only one which had a chance of beating him was the black stallion of th• Cos. sack Boustche-Tchou-Groumien, who has gained all the prizes during the last four years. That horse was unfortunately ill at the time. Last year he cleared the 18 wersts in 18 minutes and 25 seconds. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's stag-hounds meet on Monday at Coombe Farm ; Wednesday, at Epsom Downs; Friday, at Leatherhead Downs-11. The Brighton harriers on Monday at Patcliam ; Wednesday, at the Race Course; Friday, at the Dyke-11. The Brookside harriers on Monday at Newmarket Hill ; Thurs day, at Telscombe Tye—half-past 10. Lord Clinton's hounds on Tuesday and Friday at the Kennel. Sir C. Constable's stag-hounds on Monday at Preston ; Friday, at Long Riston-11. Lord Yarborough's hounds on Monday at Chase Hill ; Wednes day, at Limber Village ; Friday, at Saxby Mill-11. Lord Petre's hounds on Monday at Buttsbury Church ; Thurs day, at Puddle Dock ; Saturday, at Mountnessing—half-past 10. Mr. Tudway's hounds on Monday at Batcombe Lodge ; Wednes. day, at Hallatrow ; Friday, at Lydford. Mr. Hellier's hounds on Monday at Solihull : Friday, at Baddes ley Clintonhalf-past 10. - The Holdernes; hounds on Monday at Brandicurton Moor Tuesday, at Mr. Boultby's house, at Howard ; Thursday, at Ever. ingham ; Saturday, at Rise—l I. Mr. A. Smith's hounds on Monday at Oare Hill ; Tuesday, at Netheravon ; Thursday, at Lower Wick Farm ; Friday, at South Grove-11. Duke of Beaufort's hounds on Monday at Alderton Village ; Wednesday, at Dyrrham Park ; Saturday, at Stanton Park. The Thanet harriers on Monday at Seamark-10. The East Kent harriers on Monday at Seamark-10. The East Kent harriers on Monday at Little Mongeham--10. The Tickham hounds on Monday at Binbury Pound; Friday, at Norton Court—half-past 10. Mr. Mure's hounds on Monday at Depden Green; Thursday, at Burrough Green—half-past 10. The Cheshire hounds an Monday at Appleton Hall ; Tuesday, at Norton Priory ; Thursday, at the Black Deg, Barnhill Road ; Friday, at Duddon Heath—half-past 10. The Marquis of Hastings's hounds on Monday at Blackfordly Bridge ; Wednesday, at Cavendish Bridge ; Saturday, at Kingston Village—half -past 10. Mr. Giles's hounds on Monday at Howler's Heath ; Thursday, at Corse Grove -10. Mr. S. Owen's hounds on Monday at Montford Bridge ; Friday, at Birch Coppice —half-past 10. Sir T. Boughey's hounds en Monday at Loggerheads ; Wednes day, at Chetsvynd ; Friday, at Woodcote—half4ast 10. The East Kent hounds on Monday at Reinden ; Wednesday, at Elham Park ; Friday, at Sellinge Lees—half-past 10. Lord Portman's hounds on Monday at Bulbarrow ; Thursday, at Stoke House. Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds on Monday at Washingle) ; Wednes day, at Old Weston Mill; Thursday, at the Kennel—half-past 10. COURSING. SOUTH LANCASHIRE CLUB. The Haddon Puppy Cup. Mr. Whitehead's Tomboy beat Mr. Edwards's Maiden Queen, Mr. Deakin's Fly beat Mr. Chew's Don John, Mr. Lucas's Lap wing beat Mr. King's Hector, Mr. Bake's Belvidera beat Mr. Parkinson's Silk, Mr. Lucas's Lightning beat Mr. Hunt's Sylvian, Mr. Slater's Smart beat Mr. King's Clasher, Mr. Chew's Carpen ter beat Mr. Gale's Cap, Mr. Moss's Wedge beat Mr. Fowler's Chase. First Ties—Fly beat Tomboy, Belvidera beat Lapwing, Light ning beat Smart, Carpenter beat Wedge. Second Ties—Belvidera beat Fly, Lightning beat Carpenter. Deciding Course—Mr. Lucas's Lightning (late Priam), by Steamer, beat Mr. Bake's Belvidera, by Oscar, out of Verbena. The Granby Stakes, for all-aged dogs. Mr. Edwards's Pepper beat Mr. King's Touchstone, Mr. Row ley's Negro beat Mr. Hunt's Balloon, Mr. Robinson's Brilliant beat Mr. Whitehead's Harlequin, Mr. Ogden's Talleyrand beat Mr. Chew's Ellis, Mr. Mayan's Rattler beat Mr. Slater's Spree, Mr. Ogden's Black Diamond beat Mr. Machill's Mary, Mr. Hunt's Hollyhock beat Mr. Gale's Chasse, Mr. Bake's Skimmer beat Mr. Chew's Venture. Second Ties—Pepper beat Negro, Black Diamond beat Rattler. Brilliant beat Talleyrand, Hollyhock beat Skimmer. Deciding Course—Mr. Hunt's Hollyhock, by Bolivar, beat Mr. Robinson's Brilliant. - --- We have perused with much pleasure the 31st edition of an interesting pamphlet, entitled " A Practical Treatise on the Human Hair," by Mr. Alex. Rowland, pupil of the late Joshua Brooks, Esq. This little work consists of a series of observations thrown together on the subject of the Culture of the Human Hair ; the result of much study and experience. The frequent causes of the decay of this important integument of the h ea d are clearly pointed out, together with the mean s o f p revent i on and cure. We earnestly recommend its perusal by all classes, and un derstand it is given (gratuitously) to every purchaser of Rowland's Macassar Oil. The Chester Natural History Society have gene rously ordered that their Museum be open gratuitously to the working classes every Saturday from twelve till two o'clock. It is gratifying to Firceive that s o much good will and confidence still exists in various quarters towards the working clases, and also that their good condu c t in all such cases amply bears out the expectations of the Society for obtaining free access for the people to national mo numents and valuable collections. MR. PLUMER WARDS N E W WORK, " PIC TURES OF THE Wom.n."—We believe, since M r . Ward ' s ast appearance before the novel reading public, he has made a lengthened sojourn on the continent ; visiting several of the German Courts and Spas, and mixing more intimately than he has done of late years, in the " gaieties" as well as the "gravities" of those favourit e p l aces of fashionable resort. We are not a little curious to learn whether his " Pictures of the World," which are about to make their appearance, have been gathered from these fertile sources of study and observation. In a n y case we are sure of their being such as might be looked for in vain from any other living writer. Viscount Alford, who has been making a tour in Italy and HungarY, arrived at Brighton on Monday even ing, from the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Brownlow and the Ladies Cust intend to remain on the Continent until the latter end of February, or early in March, THE LATE STORM. Devonport Independent Office, 12 o'clock P.M., Thursday, Nov. 29, 1838. We have experienced a most terrific gale to-day. Two vessels—Le Colose (French), Captain Hanchet, was wrecked last night, and the Spanish vessel Antonio ran foul of.—See Plymouth Journal. The Earl of Durham and suite is still on board of the Inconstant, within the Breakwater. The weather is mode rating, and no doubt can be entertained but his Lordship will land to-morrow, Friday the 30th inst. Plymouth Sound is full of vessels. About 100 were seen to-day, in a state of jeopardy, by thousands of spectators, from the Hoe. Three poor fellows (watermen) endeavoured to reach the Inconstant, yesterday, with milk and bread ; the boat upset, and they were all drowned. The Opossum packet arrived at Falmouth yesterday, from Rio, with the Mexican mail. Great fears are enter tained for the Skylark packet ; it is supposed she is lost. The Earl of Durham expected to land on Wednesday night, and entertained the officers of the Inconstant at a farewell dinner. W e expect to hear of many disasters at sea. The steam packets from Dublin for this port are supposed to be at Mil ford, all safe. Should Lord Durham land to-morrow, he will receive the Address from Devonport at Government House, which will be reported fully in the Devonport Independent on next day (Saturday). COLOMBIAN BONDS. More business has been doing in Colombian bonds during the last few days, at improved quotations, in consequence of the announcement by the Com mittee of the South American Bondholders, that an arrangement is shortly expected to be completed with the Colombian creditors. It appears that the divi sion of the debt has been formally agreed upon, and rati fied by the three respective States, and that a Commissioner from each is on the eve of coming to London to make the necessary arrangements for exchanging the Bonds, and one of whom has already arrived ; but the more important fact is, that two remittances have been received on account of the future dividends during the last twelve months, and others are promised to be very shortly forthcoming. We cannot but congratulate the unfortunate creditors, who have been waiting upwards of twelve years for their dividends, on this dawn of justice, which we shall be glad to see car ried out honestly, yet, at the same time, we would caution them against being too sanguine, lest any unforeseen cir cumstances should occur by which these apparently honest intentions may be frustrated. PRICE OF SUGAR. COMBINED EFFECTS OP BOUNTY AND OF MONOPOLY. Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar in Mincing. lane, and comparing the same against foreign sugars : London, Nov. 30, 1138, The Gazette this day quotes the average price of British Per cwt. Pl an tation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at 3 2s. sid, Nt i scovado Sugars raised by free labour in the Manilla have been sold this week at from 191. to 225. fid. per cwt., being about 10s. per cwt. less than the average price of West India Sugar. The bounty on refined Sugar having been reduced to 355. Sd, per cwt., no sales for exportation have been effected this week in that article. This reduction still leaves a clear bounty—allowing Is. for the duty on the poisonous dirt contained in the Mus_ahy in London a t 31 s. per cwt., being e British consumer of 22 5. l i d, per cwt , cov ado or moist Sugar—and which is extracted from it by the process of refining of 10$. Rd, B r iti s h Treacle is worth Os. per cwt. in the fo re i gn markets. The towardsail , n 1 sameoeth : eh w era r s a s e s r w t d , of . words Westdubeense. price22o I : n d. d paidt? a e tr. cwon Treacle con t r ib uted by the poo r this by na, , i towards , and not, as it i s erroneously supposed, Corem—The duty on West India Coffee, the price of it rangin g from 955. to 1 30 s, per cwt., is 565 . per cwt., a b out 50 per cent, ad valorem. . The duty on St. Domingo Coffee, the ave rage price of it being 425. per cwt., is 1 40 s. per cwt., or about 300 per cent, ad valorem. The protective duty, therefore, on West India Coffee i s equ i valent to 251 per tceceitit e tv. On Wednesday last, a man in the employ of the Bolton Railway Company lost his life by foolishly attempt ' i ng t o cross the road when the tram was fast approaching. He was thrown down, and the thigh severed from his body close to the hip. T HE MARCH OF GAS. —The town of Kirkwall, ainsd now lighted this beautiful invention to the in n he up with gas—thus carrying Ultima Thule of her Majesty's British dominions. On Wednesday last the town-clerk of Banff re ceived an opinion of counsel from Mr Rutterford, Solicitor- General, to the effect that that burgh is disfranchised, in consequence of an informality regarding the election of ma gistrates.--Caledonian Mercury. Orkney,comfort rrinlT ^'f' 110..!;(io ...... , • • BURKE'S COMMONERS.—NOW READY, THE LAST PART of the SMALL PAPER EDITION of BURKE'S HISTORY of the LANDED GENTRY, price 4s. 6d. This important Work, containing a GENEALOGICAL and HERALDIC ACCOUNT of ALL the EMINENT FAMILIES in the UNITED KINGDOM, anti upwards of 100,000 Indivi duals connected with thorn, may now be had complete, in Four large Volumes, prir!e 188. each bound: or in Sixteen Parts, price 4s. 6d. each (either of which may be had separately), embellished with Portraits, Armorial Bearings, &c., forming a DESIRABLE COMPANION to BURKE'S PEERAGE and BARO NETAGE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER comnienced this day at 50 minutes past Three o'clock ....- i . ~-_, ---,,,,,,,,-, _y, i m:, -- 5 . 7. , ,54...."? . (- 4 _ ~.4.., _,,,;=•',,t i , 2, - \'' t ' 4 " ' ) '`' l '''' 1 . ,,. c\ Arli•-_.--''''6_,-.. 2: -- r 1 , 4, ‘ ...: - . 3 1 --: 7 -. • '..4.6.....,,,.:1„-- .. 7- ...-- , ..... 5. ,, , e ) ---1,1, 1 ''''''''' . ------ ~.. ,• , , 4..- C i f) I> t WITH WHICH IHE « TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 1, 1838. WAR IN CANADA. We have received a file of New York Papers to the 9th of November inclusive, with very important news from the Canadas. The existence of a deter mination on the part of the rebels to take advantage of the winter to try conclusions with the Government in the field, is unfortunately no longer proble matical. Should the frost set in with any degree of severity before large re-inforcements of British troops can be poured into the two Provinces, it is greatly. to be feared that the effusion of blood this winter will be frightful. The Montreal Herald of the 29th October states, that along the whole American frontier drilling was carried on for the avowed purpose of assisting the rebels. From annexed. extracts from the New York Morning Courier and Inquirer of the 9th of November, it will be seen that Lord DURHAM had scarcely sailed out of sight of the Canadian coast before the insurgents were up in arms. CANADA. It is, we confess, not without great surprise that we find the intelligence in relation to a new and extensive outbreak in Canada, confirmed by the following extracts : CANADA WAR RENEWED. We have to announce the important and thrilling intelli gence that the Canadian population is again in arms resolved to strike a blow for freedom. The news by last night's boat is, that a general and simultaneous rising of the French popu lation on this side the St. Lawrence has taken place, and that several small posts had fallen into their bands; they had made prisoners of the soldiers stationed at Napierville, and secured a considerable amount of arms and ammunition. St. John, it wa- believed, would be attacked last night by a strong force, estimated at seven or eight thousand. The utmost consternation prevailed at St. John's yesterday, and every means was put in requisition for the emergency. Capt. Price's sloop, the Daniel Webster, we understand, was not permitted to leave the port. Several of our citizens went down last evening. This movement is said to be headed by Robert Nelson, Cote, Gagnion, Hotchkiss, and several foreign military leaders. Of its results a few days will inform us; and this evening's boat will probably bring a pretty decisive indication. All accounts speak of arms, ammunition, and men, in abun dance. May God prosper the right. Martial law is again proclaimed within the District of Montreal, and we shall doubtless be called to chronicle scenes of bloody outrage. (From the Montreal Herald—Extra.) Monday Morning, Nov. 5, 1838. The events we have so often predicted are now matter of history--the Canadians have again risen in open rebel lion, evidently under more efficient organization, and Mar tial Law was yesterday proclaimed in this province, for the second time, in the short space of twelve months. Most alarming intelligence reached town yesterday fore noon that the whole country was in a state of insur. rection, and that many loyalists have been murdered in cold blood in the county of Acadie. Further accounts, but too painfully corroborated the previous rumour, and a considerable body of troops was dispatched to that country. The steamer Princess Victoria, which took over a de tachment of the Royal Artillery on Saturday afternoon to Laparaire, was twice set on fire by the rebels while at the wharf, but fortunately escaped without much in jury. The loyalists in Laparaire had ten minutes notice to leave the village, and getting on board the steamer Brittannia, they have arrived in town in safety. Yes terday morning about two o'clock, a party of 300 rebels, at tacked the house of Mr. L. Brown at Beauharnois—and, after about twenty minutes fighting, Mr. Browne, Mr. Ellice, jun. M. P., Mr. Norval, Mr. Ross, and the other Constitution alists surrendered themselves prisoners, and nothing more is at present known of their fate. Mrs. Ellice, Miss Balfour, and the other females in the house at the time, toek refuge in the cellar during the engagement. Mr. Brown and Mr. Ross are both wounded. Yesterday afternoon, an Indian woman at the village of Caughnawaga, who was se e king f or a stray cow, di scovere d a large body o armed men in the woods, and gave information of the circumstance to the Indians, who were then assembled at Church. They immediately seized what arms they could procure, such as muskets, tomahawks, and pitchforks, and, giving the war-whoop, charged their foes, who scampered off as fast as they could, throwing down their arms as they fled, Seventy-five were taken prisoners, and brought into town, handcuffed, by the Lachine Cavalry. A considerable number of arrests were made yesterday, among whom are L. M. Viger, the President of the People's Bank ; D. B. Viger, tan ex-Legislative Councillor ; Chas. Mendelet ; John Donegani ; C. S. Cherrier, and a great many other leading rebels. The volunteers were ordered out, and vied with each other in doing their duty with alacrity. They were appointed to search every suspected house in the city and suburbs for arms, and they brought in a considerable supply. It was remarked that in Cana dian houses, there were very few men to be seen, and it is supposed that they are not far off. The gates at the different barricades were closed, and strong pickets placed to guard them. Reinforcements of troops were sent to various quarters of the district. At Beauharnois the rebels took possession of the steamer Brougham, on her way to La chine, with the mail on board. It is currently reported that during the engagement, Mr. John *Donald, while leading on a party of Dragoons against the rebels, was shot dead, five bullets having pierced his body. His Excellency Sir John Colborne arrived yesterday morning in the John Bull, and issued the following proclamation : PROVINCE OF / J. COLBORNE. LOWER CANADA. By his Excellency, Sir John Colborne, Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Military Ord,r of the Bath, Ad ministrator of the Government of the Province of Lower Canada, Lieutenant-General-in-Chi e f of her Majesty's Forces in the said Province, &c. &c. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas there exists in rule District of A i ontreal a ,raitorous conspiracy, by a number of r.:sona. falsely styling themselves Patriots, for the s " l oversion of the au thority of her Majesty, and destruction of the esta blished constitution and overnment of the said Pro vince ; and whereas `i,'ne said traitorous conspiracy bath broken out into acts of the most daring and open rebellion ; and whereas th; said rebellion bath very considerably ex tended itsel,l',, in so much that large bodies of armed traitors have 'openly arrayed themselves, and have made, and do still make, attacks on Her Majesty's subjects, and have committed the most horrid excesses and cruelties; And whereas in the parts of the said district in which the said conspiracy bath not as yet broken out in open re bellion, large nun.bers of such persons, so calling them selves Patriots, for the execution of such their wicked designs, have planned means of open violence, and formed arrangements for raising and arming an organized and disciplined force, and in furtherance of their pur poses, have frequently assembled in great and unusual num bers; and whereas the exertions of the civil power are inef fectual for the suppression of the aforesaid traitorous and wicked conspiracy and rebellion, and for the protection of the lives and properties of her Majesty's loyal subjects; And whereas the Courts of Justice in the said district of Montreal have virtually ceased to exist, from the impossibility of executing any legal process or warrant of arrest therein; and whereas the public safety requires that law martial should be exercised : Now therefore I have thought fit, by and with the advice and consent of her Majesty's Executive Council of this Province, to issue this proclamation to the end that it be made manifest that I shall arrest and punish, and cause to be ar rested and punished, all persons who have been hitherto, or who now are or hereafter may be in anywise acting, aiding and assisting in the said conspiracy and rebellion, and who here after may be in anywise acting, aiding, or assisting of Mon_nginany other conspiracy and rebellion within the saids treal, according to Martial Law, either by death or otherwise as to me shall seem right and expedient, for the punishment :f all rebels iu the said district. Given under my hand and seal of arms, at the GovP•rnment House, in the City of Montreal, in the province of Lower Canada, the fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thi:ety eight, in the second year of her Majesty's reign. By his Excellency's command, THOS. LEIGH GOLDIE, Acting Secretary of the Province. - - - The Montreal Light Infantry is ordered to meet this day at one o'clock precisely, at the Montreal Bank, and it is essen tially requisite that the muster he not only numerous, but , hily! ,, lf, tin he oiuw,ei are ail •- ' row ye-tef d3 Y' full and permanent pay, with allowances, ii' the same ' of the line. in MONEY MARKET, NOV. 9. —No material change occurred Stocks yesterday ; the market, however, was very firm prices fully sustained, with a tendency decidedly upwardso Sales of United States Bank, at 121, Delaware and fluc i n at 74, Mohawk Railroad, at 65, Harlem Railroad, 57k, Lin Stonington Railrovd, at 44. as soldiers The packets both for England and France being still de' tained by the inclen - .ency of the weather, further sales of E; change were yester d ay e ff ected w i thout change in t h e previou rates. The Charleston Courier notices the arrival at that part°4l Thursday l ast o f th e s hi p O sceo l a, f rom L ondon, hav i ng o n b° B , nearly half a m illi on d o ll ars i n go l d and silver, imported V'be directors of the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston la r n Company, f or t h e use o f t h e S outh Western Bank. The subscription t o t hi s B an k w ill b e fi na lly dos ° on Thursday n ext . Th e S toc k ho ld ers w ill meet at Charles; ton on th e 20 t h i nstant , to e l ect D i rectors. The i r bills already e ngrave d, a temporary bank i ng -house will be pro vide d , and now that an a b un d ant supp l y of specie has been pr oeu7 t the bank w ill go i mme di ate l y i nto operation under the favourable auspices. Railrosei We shall give further news from Canada in a SECOND EDITIO • At three o'clock this d a y L or d D URHAM ha' AOt 11 . 0 reached London, and, si ngu l ar l y enoug h , b e fore 11) arrival we have the news o f an actua l rebellion )11 Canada. The present LORD MAYOR, who has been sa Alderman for seven years, and who has been connee: with the Corporation probably more than twice I; time, has ev id ent l y rece i ve d a new light since his s cession to the o ffi ce w hi c h h e so respecta bl y 61 is, Scarcely a day passes without some P r 1: 0 being bro ug ht b e f ore hi s L ordship of t abuses or ex t or ti ons w hi c h t h e Ci ty functionr eles , or those in th e i r a p po i ntment, practise on the o ignorant, confiding citizens. When Mr. BRADY O , commenced his atta c k s on th e i n di v id ua l s who c°l' spire to keep u p th e monopo l y i n coals, t h e 1,01 0 MAYOR, in the simplicity of his heart, d o ubted o f statements, and would no t a ll ow t h e c h arac ters /0 honourable men to be attacked in their absenee.ere a very few day s , h owever , h e di scovered that they 'l3ot not " all honour a bl e men ," an d h onestly confessed 5/ there were tricks in the coal trade, and that a r ,f,:i s injurious combi na ti on ex i ste d to ro b the public. This confession, no doubt, alarmed the monopolists , tea, forthwith ten m ore coa l- we i g h ers were appo inte d and an additi ona l num b er o f co l l i ers admitted 100, tiers in the Pool, notwithstanding the assertion of 00 1 DIXON and others th a t no re f orm was neeessar/P, ej, that the sy s t em was t h e b est that could be d e°l se s pi No doubt th e s ame aut h or i t i es consider the Pre,bie, mode of conducti ng Ci ty b us i ness the best P°tbe and judge it a wise regulation, in order to check veri e abuse of the r i g ht o f pet i t i on, to charge e petitioner the sum of 11. 3s. 6d., before b e 0 be heard. Thi s c h arge , no d oubt, will be roe forward by-and-by as a vested right, and s° oo l, cousin of som e Ald erman , w h o pockets the %el will claim a com p ensat i on ; an d he will be tide, by hundreds of the " all honourable men," 'n o , trouncing City R e f orm , as not hi ng l ess than Co epr tion robbery. " Wh at , ta k e t h e b read out et so mouths, after we have served our fellow•eitiz e ' fis w illi long and so faithfully ! The House of Lords „ as they have hitherto done, stand by vested righ ts : oh The evidence of the LORD MAYOR, 11 ° Cr- • • who deserves great credit for his honest , cor . nation, in denoun c i ng t h e tr i c k s of his ff.:110- nt porators, will probably be of some use when the bes il c o of purification is applied to this Augeart $ O , l is now let into the secret; he finds gt trios r " combination" i n one department, an d in awl ( be' finds a regular plan, which he Lad never hea rd plao fore, to shut th e mout h of a poor citizens est which he d escr ib es ae, quite mon s t rou s"---" - 01 e scandalous," in a er.gporation possessing an in c°- of five hundred if a thousand pounds a year. bee p city functionPfy of fourte en y ears ' stan di ng has td if hitherto i gnorant on t h ese su b jects we can b e A wonder that the secrets of the Corporation have butt concealed fro m th e eyes o f t h e pu bli c. Th e P t he however, are now without excuse. They hay fob becl authority o f t h e L ORD M AYOR that they are • or o by the monopolists in the coal trade—that that a d robbed by th e r i c h est C orporat i on in the world' ed, with a ref orm i ng L ORD M AYOR at t h e ir b e e ee , they will h ave t h emse l ves only to blame if they it ho tinue to pay the enormous tax on coals, or an e of the rates now raised to pay functionaries I . °r managing their affairs. t he The Tim es ma k es an unwarrantable :Atta ck jay o{ Treasury thi s morn i ng , i n re l at i on to t h e de jtR building th e R oya l E xc h ange, which only be trilly o l own ignorance of the circumstances of the vis e ' res bs° delay arises f rom t h e o b stinaey of the ct res s and the City C omm i ttees, an d not from the "T t' When a Committ ee o f t h e C ommons inquired' . Ar ita case, they came to an understanding, as the pu bl h ic t the advance a cons id era bl e sum of mono", t " ti boil el Treasury should h ave a veto on the plan of t h e era ci ing, and be respons ibl e f or the propriety 01 the oley tion. Sir R. I NGLIS, Si r B. HALL, and oth er • 'Ol l bets of th e C omm i ttee, of different polltr f ' tbi o ciples, concur with the CHANcELLot t EXCHEQUER, in affirming that such ivss understanding, w hil e t h e C i ty Co - mmittee dell y sOr it Tre e and refuse to su b m i t t h e i r plan, to the 000 toA Under such circumstances th. Treasury ha s ° nee' . a resolution not to sanction any part of P r e see d , ings, t h e c h o i ce of a - site, for example, e V° the plan an d h ave t'ne estimates before them o r t"- re n° ing to be, erected, Th e i n f ormants o f t h e T.° es o' -- h a uces'.„,ls, dn'abt well 'Acquainted w ith t h ese c i rc ums i ie 0 1 " to with that. meanness which distinguishes li t ` , vie` I ho •th they put f o rth on l y one s id e o f a c ase, wi t hose tv . escape responsibility an d t h row bl ame enin ce coo te . do not des er v e it. I s t h ere any great job c i u tts l / a? plation by the c ity j o bb ers , t h at they pele9eoPiassencleco fuse to allow thei r pl ans an d est i mates t o t b r ave t t i o oo The Times must know also that the e ld August 10th—and its city friends shou ld ' e q ues te , it—that the city authorities did not bring t that cls he fr 0 01 • t before the Treasury till two months usnlo n f ca n os Before the Times accuses the Treasury - it in r delay, it sh ou ld i ns i st on i ts friends. putting session of all the facts of the case. _ __ We regret to learn from Birmingham' tive d t; t th e .90—______ tho people there, at a public meeting, have neg 4 •att`he proposition to form an Anti-Corn-Law Ass ec ii ; the and our regret is considerably heighten ed , t h e - prir cause of their resolution. The opponents c 4 k for ject asserted that it was entirely hopeless to 95 5 , of the repeal of the Corn-laws from the presen t Tleli '` Commons. What is likely to be the result of - bull' total want of confidence in the 'Legislature by the 1 t o of the people, contemplate. The stePay friends of the abolitiorilich popula-, is easy to c , njecture, but fear.o lit Birmingham,A nevertheless, have resolved to forulesoot caanusental-tCemorpn-Lavi Association, though th e y ar god to have n i in a , te so ol ~ .oler to no l Support ; and, having such a .r ile tu prre . "_, ; „g, e..er o ti r o a n ry s. def w ea l t m o t u a g w h a t i o ts ni t y he to em a they givethe paragraph, taken from the Morning Herald of to-oii ) the great up cause, may be seen by the fuli elv ;,,f, The advocate of the landed interest:— s tll, The real cure for the evils of the present Corn-la:tovto real corrective of gambling in Mark-lane —the real se . _7 , ' t i l e the l farmer against ruinous fluctuations in price, Spa labouring classes against starvation, or want of ernployTde o f is the absolute prohibition of foreign grain, as an or" si le importation into England. So long, we contend, as 2 _ hog labourer in this country is unable to find eraployrnent---b.°_,est, as capitalists are compelled, from lack of profitable Il' in. re ments, to peril their property in desperate ad ventures„on of mote corners of the world—so long ought the importri,tia foreign wheat to be prohibited altogether! By Pr° 1 . 0 01 4 the importation :foreign wheat, a wise Government Vi